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Four more days

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Probably not a good idea if you’re contemplating putting a Trump sign in your yard or a sticker on your car. Unless you have enough money to fix the inevitable damages. There’s no one more intolerant of other people’s opinions than a Democrat.

UPDATE POST TRUMP VICTORY: Hahahahahahaha! Up the Deplorables!

Drain the Swamp!

That’s Trump’s excellent campaign slogan these days, added to his older Make America Great Again. More like Make American Normal Again, as gay Pay Pal co-founder, Silicon Valley billionaire, and Trump supporter Peter Thiel puts it.

Normal as in no more half trillion dollar trade deficit. No more NAFTA and other free trade putting 94 million American adults—almost half the adult population—out of work. And no more fighting five undeclared, simultaneous wars with no victory in sight. Fix those things and closing the southern border to cheap, unskilled illegals and ceasing the flow of cheap, unskilled Muslim refugees from the Middle East would be a piece of cake.

Well, I mixed some Rush Limbaugh in there with what Thiel says on this video which Limbaugh has on his site. Thiel’s trying to educate the Ruling Class. It’s well worth a listen. How many Silicon  Valley billionaires are backing Trump? Just Thiel as far as I know. And he’s angry. But very measured in his anger. He wants to drain the swamp before it’s too late. Too late to stop something worse than a controversial presidential election.

And here’s Trump’s latest summation of a speech on his issues: ObamaCare, Nafta, Common Core, high taxes and cuts in defense spending.

“I am not a politician,” he said. “My only special interest is you, the American people. The guiding rule of the political class in Washington, D.C., is that they are looking out only for themselves. They will say anything, and do anything, to cling to their power and prestige at your expense. I’m running to change and reverse decades of failure, and to work with the American people to create generations of success.”

Works for me. I’m more than ready for an outsider president. Drain the Swamp!

Here’s how stupid Hillary is

From Fox News:

“FBI sources say with 99% accuracy that Hillary Clinton’s server has been hacked by at least five foreign intelligence agencies, and that information had been taken from it.”

What a president she would make, eh?

Via Real Clear Politics

Hillary’s threat to the Russians

We know the Hildabeast is bellicose. For a woman whose gender is supposed to be about cooperation, she is as competitive as any male. She engineered the death of Gaddafi who, for all his faults, was on our side at last. But now, incredibly, she’s talking about threatening the Russians, who have the nuclear arsenal Iran can only dream about.

Her major declared threat to them is to impose a no-fly zone over Syria, the same idea her husband Slick Willie championed and imposed on Iraq back in the 90s. But except for a few Turkish and other fighter-bombers over Syria, the majority of fliers and their aircraft are Russian.

Which explains why Putin’s government has been running civil defense exercises and talking about nuclear war. Even to the point of mentioning (at length) their new RS-28 Sarmat missile, dubbed the Satan 2, whose seventeen nuclear warheads they have pointedly claimed could wipe out a geographical area the size of Texas.

The Democrats are running new campaign ads claiming Trump would start a nuclear war, but other than a few naive remarks about nuclear weapons, he hasn’t threatened the only other nuclear power of any significance. Only the Democrat candidate has done that.

Not that the Russians likely would waste an RS 28 on us. Well, maybe on Houston with its oil terminals, which might takeout Louisiana, Arkansas and parts of Mississippi. More likely they would all go to the east and west coasts: DC, NYC, and LA. Maybe Felonia would figure that out in time and not let the confrontation get too hot.

She’s a notorious liar, after all, as well as a criminal. Maybe her no-fly zone is just more campaign bullshit, like her phony plan to tax the rich. We can only hope.

Sanity returns to the Air Force

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The A-10 Thunderbolt II’s retirement is being rethunk. Good news for the groundpounders, for whom air support from the fast movers always was problematic.

I once flagged a passing F-4 Phantom for air support and was shocked to watch it fling a 250-pounder (the smallest bomb it had at the time) farther than desired: right into the outskirts of a friendly village. The Thunderbolt II, whose pilots call it the Warthog, carries only 10-pounder rockets, in addition to its 30mm rotary nose cannon, and is slow enough to be a lot more accurate.

“Air Force maintainers are also preparing to replace the wings of the A-10 fleet, tapping a $2 billion contract originally awarded to Boeing in 2007, which was intended at the time to keep the fleet flying until 2028. Some corrosion of the planes has been seen at the depots, but Pawlikowski says this is to be expected, especially on an aircraft that has been in service since 1977.”

Their wings likely corrode faster because they fly low and (relatively) slow and stir up and collect a lot of dirt, dust and vegetative derbis. The Warthog could do a lot more damage to ISIS than any fast mover. Sure wish we’d had them in Vietnam.

Via Popular Mechanics

If she wins she won’t be indicted

Not by the current “Justice” Department, nor by any AG she appoints

“And what of the future? Mr. Comey reportedly wrote his letter to Congress over the objection of the attorney general and her deputy. Thus, regardless of what is in the newly discovered emails, the current Justice Department will not permit a grand jury to hear evidence in this case. And because only a grand jury can constitutionally bring charges, that means no charges will be brought.

“Which is to say, we know enough to conclude that what we don’t know is of little immediate relevance to our current dismal situation.”

Comey will be—perhaps already is—a dead man walking.

Former U.S. AG MICHAEL B. MUKASEY in the WSJ

No, not the Baskervilles

It’s the Hound of the Puckerbrush, and there’re no moors of any type down there with Andy in dryland southwest Texas. Nor is Sherlock Holmes lurking about on this Halloween night. And, lucky for Andy, in all probability no clowns neither.

Just another good essay on life as an oil field gate guard with a new dog and a whole year’s relief from “a worthless harridan,” which you could look up in his search function. Libel suits are not my thing.

As for the clowns, they are one reason I’m not enthusiastic about handing out candy this year and will keep the porch lights off here at the rancho. Yes, there have been a few clown sightings hereabouts, not specifically in our neighborhood but in the general geography. If one of them is going to get shot, this will be the night.

The presidential fandango is purely weird enough. Let’s hope for no shootings.

Via MyOldRV